Ada Lovelace, she was the author of the first computer program a 100 years before computers came into existence

Margaret burbidge, discovered that elements that make up everything on earth AND YOU, spewed out of exploding stars, literally sparking up the field of Astrophysics https://twitter.com/anasarcasm/status/1299312903598743552
Jocelyn Bell burnell, discoverd neutron stars, one of the most compact and monsterous objects in the universe objects, crumbs of her plate are now entire careers of people

Vera Rubin, discoverd the existence of dark matter by looking at the rotation curves of galaxies
Marie Curie, literally discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity in heavy elements like a boss and won 2 Nobel prizes, only women to have won the prize twice.

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics were central to the space missions of @NASA
Emmy noether, What a brilliant mind she had, she was so badass that she came up with her conservation/symmetry theorems which revolutionized the field of theoretical physics forever

Rosalind Franklin, her work was central to understand the structure of DNA, she deserved a Nobel!
Katie bouman, a 29 year old engineer and computer scientist, whose algorithms led to the first image of a black hole

Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women to go into space and inspire legions of kids to do the same thing
Chien shiung Wu, an experimental physicist whose work led to the discovery of parity violation in nuclear & particle physics!

Annie jump cannon, she was one of the finest astronomers in the history, her work led to the discovery of stellar classification!
You know who has the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in the histroy of Astronomy? Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, one of my favourites

Don't ever get me started, there are tons of women who have revolutionized the field of Science, not just science but every single discipline
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